Four astronauts from four different countries have safely returned to Earth as they splashed down near Florida after 199 days in orbit.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 went around the planet 3,184 times during their more than six months on the International Space Station (ISS).
The group was made up of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen from Denmark, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.
Ms Moghbeli, a US Marine helicopter pilot nicknamed Jaws, left the SpaceX capsule, Endurance, with a cheery message for her ISS colleagues.
“We left you some peanut butter and tortillas,” she radioed back.
NASA’s Loral O’Hara, who is due to return to Earth next month on a Russian capsule, replied: “I miss you guys already. Thanks for that very generous gift.”
Following safety checks after their night-time landing, the Dragon capsule was lifted from the Gulf of Mexico on to a recovery ship.
The crew was then due to have a health check at a medical facility.
It was SpaceX’s seventh mission to the ISS and involved hundreds of experiments being conducted.
The astronauts gathered samples from outside the station, investigated how space impacts astronauts’ sleep and looked at how being in orbit affects humans, among other things.
It’s all intended to help develop future trips to the moon, Mars and beyond.
It was the first time Ms Moghbeli and Russian astronaut Konstantin Borisov had gone to space.
Before lift-off in August, Mr Borisov told NASA’s podcast he’d grown up in a Russian city full of astronauts and had dreamt of experiencing zero-gravity.
“I want to feel weightlessness,” he said. “Not for 20 seconds like we do in the aircraft, but for an hour, a day, a week. Like, you float all the time.”
